Bernard-Henri Levy was on Charlie Rose today (rebroadcast from last night), introduced as a philosopher and as Rose’s friend. He struck me as a comic character, full of easy piety and drama, vain, and taking a swipe at a man…
With bated breath, last week I mentioned the big conference this week at Harvard’s Middle East Strategy group of the Olin Institute, on American finding its way after Bush. A lot of neocons, and a guy named Adam Garfinkle from…
Here’s a pro-Obama piece in Moment, a Jewish publication, by Letty Cottin Pogrebin, a leading feminist, co-founder of Ms. I think of Pogrebin as a big liberal. And what’s interesting here is that she basically says that McCain and Obama…
With almost GrouchoMarxlike indignation, Commentary’s blog reports a poll showing that those upstarts, the Palestinians, by 53 to 42 are against the two-state solution. Interesting. Commentary is full of righteousness on this, predictably. Who are we to talk to etc….
If you want to understand the McCain position on Jerusalem, you’d best read Dore Gold’s book, The Fight for Jerusalem. Gold is aligned with rightwinger Netanyahu. He is from New York but lives in Jerusalem, where he’s head of a…
Just Foreign Policy is an interesting group. Leftleaning, post-Iraq. Tom Hayden’s on the board, so is Julian Bond. So are some economic-justice types. Former congressman Tom Andrews of Win Without War. And these good folks are organizing a letter-writing campaign…
One of the most important political posts I’ve seen in a while was done by Richard Silverstein out of Washington State yesterday. He went to a fundraiser for a congressional candidate for Washington’s 8th district, and did so because J…
One of the amazing things about the invasion of Iraq is that not only was it charted by neoconservatives, many of them Zionists who sought to secure Israel, but that unconsciously or not, these folks inhaled the Israeli view of…
I like the headlines in the National out of Abu Dhabi. Today one headline is “Double Down,” a double entendre of Lehman and Merrill going down, 7 years after the Twin Towers went down. You can do that kind of…